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Queens, NY (77WABC)-Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Monday that 32-year-old Jessica Beauvais of Hempstead has been indicted by a Queen’s grand jury in the death of 43-year-old NYPD Officer Anastasios Tsakos, a father of two.
The DA says the indictment charges Beauvais with aggravated manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, and other crimes for allegedly driving while intoxicated and striking the officer on the Long Island Expressway during the early morning hours of April 27, 2021. Tsakos was struck with such force he was thrown nearly 40 feet in the air.
District Attorney Katz said, “As alleged, there is a list of bad choices, from drinking and getting high and getting behind the wheel of a car, that ended tragically with the defendant running down Highway Officer Anastasios Tsakos and then trying to get away. Posthumously promoted to detective, Officer Anastasios Tsakos was struck while directing traffic and protecting New Yorkers in the aftermath of a fatal one-car crash early that morning. This is heartbreaking, and a mother is left alone to raise a six-year-old and a three-year-old.”
Update: Long Island woman indicted by a Queens grand jury for killing @NYPDHighway Detective Anastasios Tsakos in fatal hit and run crash last month.
If convicted, the defendant faces up to 15 years in prison.
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— Queens DA Katz (@QueensDAKatz) May 10, 2021
Beauvais, 32, of Myrtle Avenue in Hempstead, Long Island, will be arraigned on May 25, 2021, in Queens Supreme Court on a 13-count indictment.
The indictment charges her with aggravated manslaughter in the second degree, manslaughter in the second degree, aggravated criminally negligent homicide, vehicular manslaughter in the second degree, leaving the scene of an incident without reporting, unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the second and third degree, 2-counts of operating a motor vehicle while under influence of alcohol, operating a motor vehicle while impaired by combined use of drugs or of alcohol and drugs, reckless driving, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree and failure to exercise due care when operating a motor vehicle when approaching an authorized emergency vehicle.
If convicted, Beauvais faces up to 15 years in prison.
Officer Tsakos was directing traffic related to a separate fatality when he was struck and killed. He was 14-year veteran of the force and assigned to Highway 3.
